UPSC CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION PRELIMS 2019 SPECIAL · 2018-12-08 · 1) Sarojini Naidu became the first women to preside over the session of Indian National Congress 2) The first

UPSC CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION

PRELIMS 2019 SPECIAL

LECTURE 10

MCQs – STATIC – HISTORY

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IMPORTANT CONGRESS SESSIONS

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Year Location President Importance

1885 Bombay W C Bonnerji 1st session attended by 72 delegates

1886 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji Witnessed the

merger of National

Congress and

National Conference

1887 Madras Badruddin Tyabji

1888 Allahabad George Yule First English president


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1896 Calcutta Rahimtullah M. Sayani

National song

‘Vande Mataram’

sung for the first time


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1905 Benaras Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Expressed

Resentment

against partition of

Bengal

1906 Calcutta Dadabhai Naoroji Swaraj mentioned

as the goal of the

Congress

1907 Surat Rash Behari Ghosh Party splits into

extremists and moderates

1908 Madras Rash Behari Ghosh Constitution of the

Congress was drawn


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1909 Lahore Madan Mohan Malaviya

Expressed

Disapproval over

formation of

separate

electorates.

1910 Allahabad Sir William Wedderburn

1911 Calcutta Bishan Narayan Das

Jana Gana Mana

sung for the first time

1916 Lucknow Ambica CharanMazumdar

Lucknow Pact –

joint session with

the Muslim League


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1917 Calcutta Annie Besant First woman

president of the INC

1918 Bombay and Delhi Syed Hasan Imam

(Bombay) and

Madan Mohan Malaviya (Delhi)

Two sessions

held. First in

Bombay in

August/Septembe

r. Second in Delhi in December

1919 Amritsar Motilal Nehru Condemned

Jallianwala Bagh

Massacre and

boosted Khilafat

Movement


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1920 Nagpur C Vijayaraghavachariar New Constitution of

the Congress framed

1921 Ahmedaba

d

Hakim Ajmal Khan (Acting President

for C R Das)

1922 Gaya C R Das Formation of Swaraj

Party

1923 Delhi Abul Kalam Azad Special session. Azad

was the youngest

president

1924 Belgaum M K Gandhi First and the last

session presided by

Mahatama Gandhi


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1925 Kanpur Sarojini Naidu First Indian woman

president

1926 Guwahati S Srinivasa Iyengar

1927 Madras M A Ansari

1928 Calcutta Motilal Nehru All India Youth

Congress formed


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1929 Lahore Jawaharlal Nehru Resolution for

Poorna Swaraj.

Civil disobedience

movement for

complete

independence to be

launched, 26

January to be

observed as

‘Independence

Day’.

1930 No session


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1931 Karachi Vallabhbhai Patel Resolution on

fundamental

rights and national

economic progress.

Gandhi-Irwin Pact

endorsed. Gandhi

nominated to

represent INC in

the Second Round

Table Conference

1932 Delhi R Amritlal


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1933 Calcutta Malaviya was

elected but Mrs.

Nellie Senguptapresided

1934 Bombay Rajendra Prasad

1936 Lucknow Jawaharlal Nehru Nehru urged

Congress to adopt

Socialism as its goal.

1937 Faizpur Jawaharlal Nehru First session to be

held in a village


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1938 Haripura Subhas Chandra Bose

National Planning

Committee set up under

Nehru

1939 Tripuri Subhas Chandra Bose

Bose was elected but had to

resign since Gandhi supported

Pattabhi Sitaramayya. Instead

Rajendra Prasad was

appointed

1940 Ramgarh

Abul Kalam Azad

1941-45 No session because of arrest


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1946 Meerut Acharya Kripalani Last session before

independence

1948 Jaipur PattabhiSitaramayya

First session after

independence

Q. Which of the following statements are correct in context of Haripura session (1938) of Indian

National Congress ?

1) It was presided by Jawaharlal Nehru

2) National Planning Committee was set up in this session under the chairmanship of Jawaharlal

Nehru.

Select the correct code:

a) 1 only

b) 2 only

c) Both are correct

d) None is correct

Answer : b

QUESTION 1

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Q. Which of the following statement/s is/are correct:

1) Jawaharlal Nehru presided over the sessions of Indian National Congress more than twice.

2) Mahatama Gandhi never presided over the Indian National Congress


a) 1 only

b) 2 only

c) Both are correct

d) None is correct

Answer : a

QUESTION 2

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Q. Which of the following statement/s is / are incorrect?

1) Sarojini Naidu became the first women to preside over the session of Indian National Congress

2) The first session of Indian National Congress in 1885 was presided over by A.O. Hume

3) The Surat session of 1907 was presided by Lala Lajpat Rai


a) 2 and 3 only

b) 2 only

c) 3 only

d) All of the above

Answer : d

QUESTION 3

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Q. Consider the following statements regarding sessions of Indian National Congress:

1) The first congress session to be held in village was the Belgaum session presided over by

Mahatama Gandhi

2) Mahatama Gandhi presided over a Congress Session only once

Which of the above is/are incorrect?

a) 1 Only

b) 2 Only

c) Both the statements

d) None of the statements

Answer : a

QUESTION 4

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Q. Which of the following session was presided over by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel?

a) Nagpur Session of 1920

b) Lahore Session of 1929

c) Kanpur Session of 1925

d) Karachi Session of 1931

Answer : d

QUESTION 5

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Q. Which of the following statements are incorrect?

1) The president of the session of the Congress had to belong to the same presidency in which the

session was being held

2) The congress sessions in the year 1930, 1935 could not be held





Answer : b

QUESTION 7

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Q. Which of the following statements are incorrect?

1) The president of the session of the Congress had to belong to the same presidency in which the

session was being held

2) The congress sessions in the year 1930, 1935 could not be held






Answer : b

QUESTION 7

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